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Human Rights and Drugs Volume 2, No Human Rights and Drugs Volume 2, No. 1, 2012 1, No. 2, Volume Drugs and Rights Human Human Rights and Drugs Volume 2, No. 1, 2012 ISSN: 2046-4843 Volume 2, Number 1, 2012 Introduction Original Articles The Ethics and Effectiveness of Coerced Treatment of People who Use Drugs Human Rights Alex Stevens Plants, Psychoactive Substances and the International Narcotics Control Board: The Control of Nature and the Nature of Control and Drugs Kenneth W. Tupper & Beatriz Caiuby Labate Ocial Journal of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy On the Death Penalty for Drug-Related Crime in China Yingxi BI Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Journey from Drafting History to the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Dr Khadeija Mahgoub Case Summaries Supreme Court of Canada orders Minister of Health to exempt supervised injection site from criminal prohibition on drug possession Sandra Ka Hon Chu Irish Press Ombudsman upholds complaint from coalition of drug services Tim Bingham Human Rights and Drugs Editors-in-Chief Damon Barrett & Rick Lines International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy Editorial Board Dr David Bewley-Taylor – School of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, United Kingdom Prof Neil Boister – School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Asmin Fransiska – Faculty of Law, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia Prof Paul Hunt – Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, United Kingdom Prof Ursula Kilkelly – Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland Dr Tom Obokata – Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland Rebecca Schleifer – Advocacy Director, Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch Prof William A Schabas, OC – Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Aims and Scope Human Rights and Drugs seeks to expand the current body of legal research and analysis on drug policy issues as they intersect with international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. To this end, the Journal promotes and disseminates high quality, original research and analysis in the form of articles, commentaries, case summaries and other analysis relevant to its mandate. Human Rights and Drugs is the official journal of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy. Subscription Information Human Rights and Drugs is published twice annually. It is an open access journal available free online at www.humanrightsanddrugs.org. ISSN 2046-4843 (print) ISSN 2046-4851 (online) Hard copies may be obtained free of charge from the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom or by contacting [email protected]. There may be a postage charge applied for those requesting multiple copies. Submitting Articles Submissions to Human Rights and Drugs are accepted year round for review. Information on submitting and article or commentary is available online at www.humanrightsanddrugs.org or by emailing [email protected] Thanks Human Rights Centre, University of Essex; Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway; Prof William A Schabas; Nancie Prudhomme; Mark Joyce; Bi Yingxi. Thanks also to those who peer reviewed submissions. Designed by Mark Joyce. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode ‘Deliver us from evil’? – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 50 years on Human Rights and Drugs, Volume 2, No. 1, 2012 Contents Volume 2, Number 1, 2012 Introduction Page 3 Original Articles The Ethics and Effectiveness of Coerced Treatment of People who Use Drugs Alex Stevens Page 7 Plants, Psychoactive Substances and the International Narcotics Control Board: The Control of Nature and the Nature of Control Kenneth W. Tupper & Beatriz Caiuby Labate Page 17 On the Death Penalty for Drug-Related Crime in China Yingxi BI Page 29 Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Journey from Drafting History to the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Dr Khadeija Mahgoub Page 45 Case Summaries Supreme Court of Canada orders Minister of Health to exempt supervised injection site from criminal prohibition on drug possession Sandra Ka Hon Chu Page 65 Irish Press Ombudsman upholds complaint from coalition of drug services Tim Bingham Page 71 1 1 2 Human Rights and Drugs, Volume 2, No. 1, 2012 Introduction to Volume 2 Rick Lines & Damon Barrett Editors-in-Chief We are pleased to welcome you to the second volume of Human Rights and Drugs, the official journal of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy. Established in 2009, the Centre is dedicated to developing and promoting innovative and high quality legal and human rights research and teaching on issues related to drug laws, policy and enforcement. There have been a number of exciting developments at the Centre since the first issue of the journal was released last year. The first is a change in the name of the journal itself to Human Rights and Drugs,1 and an expansion of the publication schedule to two volumes annually. We will be publishing a second edition of the journal in the autumn of 2012, and are accepting submissions now. The second development is the agreement of an academic partnership between the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Established in 1983, Essex is one of the oldest and most internationally- renowned academic human rights centres in the world. The International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy will now be formally housed at Essex, which creates a tremendous opportunity to expand the visibility of drug policy issues within human rights law community, as well as to engage undergraduate and postgraduate students through lectures and seminars. Although moving to Essex, we maintain a strong relationship with our original home at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway, and will continue to be an active contributor to academic life at that institution. 1 Formerly the International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy. International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, 2012 2 3 Lines & Barrett | Introduction The timing of this new partnership with Essex could not be better, and clearly reflects the growing interest in engaging issues of drugs and drug policy through the lens of international human rights law. This edition of Human Rights and Drugs is a product of that growing interest, and we are pleased to present new research and analysis in a broad range of topic areas. Indeed, the content of this second issue of the journal could not be more timely and relevant, particularly as the contributions reflect on - and offer thoughtful contrasts to - the recent work of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the treaty body established by the UN drug conventions to oversee their implementation. For example, the Board has recently refused to take a position on either the death penalty for drug offences or drug detention centres, putting it at odds with the clear positions on these issues expressed by UN human rights bodies, as explored in two articles in this journal. The issue of compulsory detention of people who use (or are suspected of using) drugs for the purpose of ‘drug treatment’ is one that has received substantial attention in recent years from both the NGO community and from United Nations agencies. In his article, ‘The ethics and effectiveness of coerced treatment of people who use drugs’, Alex Stevens of the University of Kent uses established standards of human rights and medical ethics to judge whether it is ethical to apply two types of coerced treatment to three groups of drug users. Stevens argues that compulsory treatment is not ethical for any group of people who use drugs, as it breaches the standard of informed consent. Quasi-compulsory treatment (i.e. treatment that is offered as an alternative to a punishment that is itself ethically justified) may be ethical under specified conditions for drug dependent offenders who are facing a more restrictive penal sanction, but is not ethical for other people who use drugs. Yingxi BI’s article ‘On the Death Penalty for Drug-Related Crime in China’ continues and expands the journal’s interest in the human rights implications of capital punishment for drug offences. Referencing a variety of Chinese and international sources, BI examines China’s criminal justice legislation and explores the debates surrounding the death penalty for drug-related offences from the perspectives of penology and human rights. Building on this base, BI discusses strategies for the restricting and possible abolition of the death penalty for drugs in China. The INCB has also publicly criticised the Supreme Court of Canada for its 2011 ruling on the INSITE safe injecting facility in Vancouver. Sandra Ka Hon Chu reviews the decision in the case of Attorney General v. PHS Community Services Society, in which the Court ruled unanimously that the Government’s refusal to grant an exemption to INSITE from criminal prohibition for drug possession violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 4 Human Rights and Drugs (2012) A critique of the Board’s work on the issue of psychoactive plants is the subject of a specific contribution. In ‘Plants, Psychoactive Substances and the International Narcotics Control Board: The Control of Nature and the Nature of Control’, Kenneth Tupper and Beatriz Caiuby Labate examine the approach of the Board to the question of plant materials containing psychoactive substances, with specific reference to its work on contemporary practices of ayahuasca drinking. Tupper and Labate argue that the Board’s recommendations against ayahuasca represent an attempt to extend the scope of its powers, while conflating and thus misrepresenting widely diverse plant materials and their effects.
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